Legacy Format Guide
Deck Construction Rules
- Minimum 60 cards in the main deck.
- Optional sideboard of up to 15 cards.
- Your deck and sideboard is not allowed to hold more than four of any individual card in this format, except for basic lands.
- Winner is determined either by best of one, or best of three games.
- These games should last standard length for a game (about 20 minutes on average).
Legal Sets
- This format allows cards to be played from all Magic sets (with the exception of those from the banned card list).
Banned / Restricted Cards
- 25 cards with the Card Type “Conspiracy.”
- 9 cards that reference "playing for ante."
- Cards whose art, text, name, or combination thereof that are racially or culturally offensive are banned in all formats. This list is a work in progress.
- Invoke Prejudice
- Cleanse
- Stone-Throwing Devils
- Pradesh Gypsies
- Jihad
- Imprison
- Crusade
- All cards that bring a sticker or an Attraction into the game are banned.
- Ancestral Recall
- Arcum's Astrolabe
- Balance
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Candelabra of Tawnos
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Deathrite Shaman
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dig Through Time
- Dreadhorde Arcanist
- Earthcraft
- Entomb
- Expressive Iteration
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Frantic Search
- Gitaxian Probe
- Goblin Recruiter
- Grief
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Imperial Seal
- Library of Alexandria
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mental Misstep
- Mind Twist
- Mishra’s Workshop
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Mystical Tutor
- Nadu, Winged Wisdom
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Oko, Thief of Crowns
- Psychic Frog
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Shahrazad
- Skullclamp
- Sol Ring
- Sowing Mycospawn
- Strip Mine
- Survival of the Fittest
- Time Vault
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Treasure Cruise
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Undercity Informer
- Underworld Breach
- Vampiric Tutor
- Vexing Bauble
- Wheel of Fortune
- White Plume Adventurer
- Windfall
- Wrenn and Six
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker